The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-06-23
GEORGIA GLEAN1NGs.

A negro boy was jailed at For
syth, Ca, for stealing a horse and
buggy from James Glass, near New
nan. He hired the turnout, kept it
three days and tried to sell it.
Giles s. Whittier committed sui
eide at Covington Wednesday night
by hanging. Mr.. Whittier was 80
years of age, the father of large
family and well to do.
A negro is sueing the Athens
Foundry for damages, because he let
piece of iron fall on his own foot.
Such damage suits are getting to be
a nuisance.
Mr.. James d. Robinson, Mariet-
ia raised young man, died in Allan
ia last Tuesday evening, aged AZ
years. He leaves a wife and one
child.
Sheriff Williams of Union coun-
ty in attempting to arrest William
Galloway, was fired upon by Will
liams, and the sheriff then shot Will
liams dead.
The Atlanta Glass Works was de-
stroyed by FIRE Tuesday morning,
throwing thirty-one glass blowers
and ninety-fve laborers out of work.
Fire was accidental The factory
will be rebuilt at once.
San now chilluns, de jubilee am
come, fer the water milluns are ripe.
Milluns, blackberries and fish Dis
am de Ian fur free niggers, and doan
you ferget it, is the etsatic murmur-
ing Of a cambridge colored sister.
William Edward Wingard, fifteen
years old, shot and killed his drunk
en- step-father. Edward E. Thomas,
Savannah, Sunday, for brutal treat
ment of his mother. The boy is in
Jail.
X. Dickinson started from Allan
ia to go to Chattanooga on foot. He
camped ten miles from Atlanta,
built fire to make some coffee. lie
fell in the fire and was so badly
burned that he died.
A negro woman, the wife of Andy
Stewart, who was killed few weeks
ago on the Covington and Macon
railroad by some falling timbers
while engaged in putting up a bridge
over Cedar creek, has sued the road
for $4,000 damages for the loss OF
her husband.
A guanO company has been organ
lied at Social Circle, with sub
scribed capital ofS25, 900. The com
pany has been organized for the pur-
pose OF manufacturing a high grade
of fertilizers. A cotton seed oil mill
will also be operated IN connection
with the fertilizer factory.
The Rev. John r. Paxton is said
to lead all the other clergymen of
New York in eloquence, originality
and independence of thought. He
gets salary of $4,000 year, and
his congregation represents $780,
100000 of wealth. lie probably
deals tenderly with the rich:
NJ. Ivey, who farms near Smith
vile, reports that on Sunday last he
heard one of his hogs squealing, and,
running out, he found that an ALI.
gator had seized and was endeavor-
ing to drag it into the pond. The
hog succeeded in getting away, but
his flesh was fearfully lacerated.
Will any man pretend to say that
speculation in futm es on the margin
and option plan is of any benefit to
the country? If two men stand on
the street corner and swap dollars
all day they are OF no earthly good
to commerce. The bucket shop is
no more part of legitimate COM
merce than horse-hy is part of
horse and the people see it just that
way atlanta Journal.
Atlanta Tale and Soapstone Min
ng and Manufacturing Company
nave organized in Atlanta with C. A.
Collier, Jacob Haas, II. V. s. Duck,
George Muse, +. S. McCandless, J.
R. Tolleson and II. 4. Boynton.
This company has a paid in capital
II s250,000, and own large lot of
'aluable.iands on the line Of the
Marietta and North Georgia Rail
road
While workmen were engaged in
he Atlanta yard of the Western and
Atlantic Friday afternoon in jack
ng up an engine the Jackscrew slip
ped, allowing a portion OF the engine
10 descend on the leg of William
Seay, causing a compound fracture
above the knee and driving an iron
pin under the knee cap. The injur-
es are exceedingly painful and dan
gerous.
The Rockmart Slate publishes an
account of the skeleton of an old
time giant, exhumed last week by
man ~ +bn limo ouorrV, of (irnur